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Research Cycle: Gather Information

• Skill: Use advanced search skills
• Skill: Select and use appropriate online databases
• Skill: Identify the type of each source
• Skill: Read and understand a bibliographic citation

• Skill: Distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources in all formats
• Skill: Determine if the information can be used, and in what way
• Skill: Differentiate between the different type of sources, for example: scholarly article vs. popular magazine
• Skill: Learn how to evaluate a primary source

• Skill: Highlighting (physically and online)
• Skill: Notetaking (physically and online)
• Skill: Skimming and scanning for specific information
• Skill: Demonstrate paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting
• Skill: Extract meaning from context -- make connections to topic and to current knowledge
• Skill: Identify main points of sources and relate these to research topic
• Skill: Interpret primary sources
• Skill: Determine how to use information from sources
• Skill: Critically analyze and evaluate one's findings and those of others
  
  
  

• Skill: Create bibliography, using appropriate format